512mb ram as 448mb

[popwar]

i was wondering if there was a way to make my 512mb stick read as 512 instead of fukin 448. I tried to play test drive unlimited but after install and trying to launch. "Not enough system memory" that got me pissed. i can buy another stick but not unless i absolutely have to. i know the remaining 64mb is probably shared with my video card somehow.

[Virtualbody1234]

You are correct. It's shared with your video card. Nothing can be done other than buying another stick.



PC System Requirements:

Operating System : Windows 2000/XP/Vista

CPU : Intel P4 @ 2.4Ghz or AMD Athlon 2800+.

GPU (Video Cards) : ATI Radeon 9800 256MB VRAM or Nvidia 6600 GT with 256 MB of VRAM.

Video Cards with vertex/pixel shaders 2.x and above are recommended.

SPU (Sound Cards) : DirectX 9.0 compatible Sound Card.

System Memory : 512 MB, 1 GB recommended

Hard Disk free space: 8 GB

DVD drive: 8x minimum

DirectX 9.0C (included)

[clocker]

Remove your video card.
This will free up the rest of the memory and the game will play just fine in "Braille" mode.

Next!

[Seedler]

Or if you disable vid card, the game will run in "safe mode" which is software rendered 640x480.

Enjoy.

[Smith]

I dont understand why your video would be using ram..if you have a card installed..

[popwar]

yea smith my friend let me use a 512 stick til i get money to buy some. but now stalker says it requires a 1gb minimum to run and it reads as i got 960mb but stalker runs so good enuff.

[neorth]

I dont understand why your video would be using ram..if you have a card installed..
Onboard video cards often use your systems ram instead of having it's own.

A solution could be to buy a cheap video card to use instead of your onboard one. This would most likely also give a boost to your graphic performance

[tesco]

I dont understand why your video would be using ram..if you have a card installed..
Onboard video cards often use your systems ram instead of having it's own.

A solution could be to buy a cheap video card to use instead of your onboard one. This would most likely also give a boost to your graphic performance
That wasn't his question at all.
The thread starter doesn't use onboard video, he has: visiontek radeon x1300 256mb ddr pci

[clocker]

I dont understand why your video would be using ram..if you have a card installed..
Me neither, now that you mention it.
Something is sucking up 64MB of system RAM...wonder what it could be?

[lynx]

The Biostar 6100-m9 has on-board graphics which uses shared memory.

If you haven't disabled it then the system assumes you are intending to use both the on-board GPU and the graphics card, so it allocates memory to the on-board GPU.

[thewizeard]

Wouldn't it be just a good idea to upgrade such a computer with a couple of RAM modules from 1gig each :) considering the "modern"games of today, that all use loads of memory. All my computers have been upgraded to 4gigs . There are also very cheap usb sticks today. ( I know you said you rather not)

....You could try an mp3 player too. I tried that once and ran two of my servers on a IPod, using its memory, for more than a week..... :cool:

[killuminati96]

Either you are using an onboard graphics chip or you have a cheap generic ATI/nVidia card that shares system ram for video ram. Get a more expensive card that only uses it's fast DDR2 or faster video memory. Then your system will report full ram because it will only be using the graphics card ram for gaming.

[clocker]

All my computers have been upgraded to 4gigs .
What OS are you running and much of the 4GBs does it actually see?

[thewizeard]

Hallo Clocker, noob speaking here.. I have three computers running, linked through LAN and running SlavaNap servers (8) a couple of BitTorrent sites and two 24/7 Internet radio stations. These are all rather intensive RAM guzzlers.

Windows XP PRO OS on all three computers powered by Intel pentium 4 3ghz processors and hosted on D915PGN mother boards and one AMD Athlon64 3200+processor hosted on a MSI K8NGM2 Mother Board. After a reboot, they show about 3.4 gigs RAM ..but regarding that rebooting, I hardly ever have to do that, unless windows (XP) wishes to update... which as we all know is nearly daily.:dry:

Normally I reboot roughly every 30 days.

[clocker]

they show about 3.4 gigs RAM ..
Just as I suspected.
I've tried running 4GB and it irritated me that XP wouldn't see it all (seems to vary between 3.1 and 3.4GB) so I reverted back to 2x1GB and called it good.
2GB seemed to be sufficient, even with Vista (which I've since ditched) but times do change and I'm sure that 2GB will soon be considered marginal.

[thewizeard]

A bit off topic.. I wish I could "borrow" one of your monster computers for a month of so.. My mouth waters as I view them..: )

[clocker]

No drooling on the hardware, Wiz.